Livin' La Vida Luna y Luca
A trip to the zoo starts with a trolley ride. We must have a ~dozen versions of this pic over the past couple years. Can't wait to make that timelapse video.
Project Fairmount Update
We are under contract to sell Project Fairmount!
The initial offer came in on Wednesday, June 4th. The buyers opened a bit below our asking price and had a short list of customizations.
We are too far along in the process to meet most of their requests. But that didn't stop them from accepting our counter-offer at asking price just a day later.
It's likely what they wanted all along. Well played, buyers... well played.
We are scheduled to close on Friday, 8/29/25, a date we can easily hit.
We are about done with trim and tile throughout. Starting paint in the next week or two and then install floors and cabinets after that.
Comparison is the Thief of Joy
I was feeling pretty happy about our outcome until Thursday, June 12th when I received the above Zillow notification that a slightly smaller house in an arguably inferior location got essentially the same number as us.
I hate that I'm this way. Constantly measuring the gap instead of the gain.
Project Fairmount is objectively a wild success. My original underwriting estimated we'd sell this house for $1.95M and we are under contract for $2.2M. I should be happy. End of story.
And I am... but there's an egocentric component to all of this that's hard to suppress. I'm not taking on all of this risk, investing all of this money, and developing homes of this caliber to do only slightly better than my competition. I want to crush them like cockroaches.
But that's the smaller, fixed pie version of my brain speaking. The larger, abundance-filled, growth mindset in me knows I need my competition to succeed in order for me to succeed.
A rising tide raises all ships. 🌊🚢
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What I'm Working On...
